Thursday, March 05, 2009

Michael Steele needs to step up or step down. I am an African-American Democrat. If I were contemplating switching to the Republican Party because of the recent rise of Steele as its chairman, the period of contemplation would have ended with a “Thanks, but no thanks” in light of Steele’s caving in to Rush Limbaugh.The scenario reminds me of the days when I had to look for a sign that permitted me to get a drink of water or go to the bathroom. America has come too far to regress to that.Basil A. Foley Sr., retired pastor, A.M.E. Church, Houston

What a load of unmitigated horseshit. If Michael Steele caved to anyone, it was to the bigoted race-baiting assholes on the left like Basil Foley here. I mean, really, here we had Steele actually agreeing that last year's Republican National Convention looked like Nazi Germany. I'd love to see some enterprising journalist — or hell, even Rush Limbaugh himself — ask Steele how agreeing with something like that makes him any different than, say, Steve Gilliard. And of course, ole Basil here conveniently FAILS to mention the fact that it was the Democrats who were putting up those signs he laments. As far as regressing to the bad old days, what do you want to bet Basil also supports the Jim Crow laws for gun owners — put forth, again, by a former Black Panther — mentioned recently here in this space?

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About Me

I am a very opinionated guy, Texan and quite proud of it. I lean toward the right politically but have a few libertarian tendencies that my conservative brothers and sisters might not agree with. I like guns, old country music and a lot of other things.

Essential Reading

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty -- so dear to men, so dear to the enlightened legislator -- and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.-- Cesare Beccaria, in On Crimes And Punishments, later quoted by Thomas Jefferson

Echo

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.-- Alexander Hamilton